(this post is inspired by Cordelia of Cordelia Calls it Quits)
I turned off the car radio today. And it's staying off.
In my old car, I rarely listened to the radio. So I'm not really sure why I turned it on when I got Grace, my new car. At any rate, I'm a dial-flipper, a button pusher, and we'd listen to anything and everything, including commercials. But the worst were the vulgar hip hop tunes. It had to stop. I suffer from earworm, you see. The music to me is not entertainment. It's propaganda. And I don't need it in my head when there are melodious and meaningful prayers and mantras that could be circling up in there.
So I quit you, car radio! (again!)
3 comments:
Good for you!! I completely agree -- most commercial radio these days is awful, and the public radio station we have here (a statewide network, unfortunately) is not a lot better. Just listening to the news is too much for me some days. So I have started listening to audiobooks -- I get to choose the content, and it's better for me to boot!
I have to have music on in the car (and often at home) otherwise I get a little too wrapped up in my head. But over a year ago I started listening to the college classical station and it helps so much. Occasionally I'll switch to the Top 40 station if I'm on the way home and need to pep up enough to stay awake, but I find the classical music and mellow announcers keep the road rage down tremendously.
Alas, for me this is NOT an option. I work for a group of radio stations (6) and need to monitor them all the time as, well.. It's my job.. I'm part of the engineering team here.
While I'm at work the car follows me into the building :)
Funny thing is though once in the engineering space n the building, we listen to the HD2 stations which have no commercials and much more variety of music.
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